May 15, 2019 Mexican cartels using border migrant crisis to distract agents from drug smuggling, Carroll says Mexican cartels are using the migrant crisis at the southern border to overwhelm U.S. agents stationed there so they can smuggle drugs here with greater ease, said James Carroll, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
April 19, 2019 Cartel member leads Mexican authorities to secret mass grave A tip from a cartel member led Mexican police to a secret site containing more than 30 graves in the state of Veracruz.Each grave may contain several people.
April 4, 2019 More Mexico plane crashes signal surge in cocaine traffic from Colombia Signs of the spike in Colombian drug production and trafficking are showing up in an unlikely way -- a growing number of aircraft accidents in Mexico, where the cocaine is being shipped in the hopes of eventually getting it into the lucrative U.S. market.
April 2, 2019 Mexican cartel gunmen kidnap and beat 11 police officers Cartel gunmen kidnapped 11 police officers traveling through the central state of Puebla during the weekend, taking their guns and detaining them for hours, according to various published reports.
March 5, 2019 Mexican government apologizes for deaths after police handed youths over to ruthless drug gang Mexican government officials offered a rare apology to the families of four innocent boys and one girl who were kidnapped by corrupt police officers and turned over to a brutal drug gang after mistaking them for members of a rival gang.
February 22, 2019 El Chapo collectibles flying off the shelves in Mexico Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman collectibles are flying off the shelves in his hometown of Badiraguato, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, as fast as they’re being restocked.
February 21, 2019 Prominent environmental activist murdered in Mexico days before landmark referendum Prominent environmental activist Samir Flores Soberanes has been shot and killed in Mexico days before a referendum on a pipeline he publicly opposed.
February 20, 2019 Kidnappings, murders on the rise in Mexican state where woman was decapitated: ‘There is a lot of suffering going on’ The death of a Mexican businesswoman snatched by sicarios while picking up her child at a friend’s home and who body was found decapitated inside a black bag briefly rattled and heightened fears in the state of Veracruz that has been plagued by growing violence.